The importance of universities as knowledge- creating entities and crucial actors in innovation systems has been demonstrated in many different empirical contexts. However, despite the growing body of scholarly work, many aspects of knowledge transfer from universities to the private sector are only imperfectly understood. What relationships and potential synergies exist between individual transfer channels such as publications, academic entrepreneurship, R&D collaboration, or graduate and researcher mobility? Under which conditions and to what extent is knowledge transfer geographically bounded, and how broad is its geographic reach? What can and should public Beyond spillovers? policy do to ensure that society can benefit from Channels and effects of knowledge the new knowledge created at universities as best possible? transfer from universities
To discuss these and related questions, the
Economic Policy Research Group and INCHER-Kassel Workshop at the University of Kassel bring together a group of leading experts from economics, management, geography and related March 6-7, 2014 disciplines in a 2-day workshop. The workshop is (Senatssaal, Mönchebergstrasse 3, 34109 Kassel) sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research as part of a project on the regional effects of higher education that we have been worked on since 2011. Contact Guido Buenstorf University of Kassel 34109 Kassel (Germany) Tel.: (+49) (561) 804-2506 [email protected]
Preliminary Program
Thursday, March 6, 2014
9.00 Opening by Guido Buenstorf
Session 1 09.15 – 10.45 Session 3 13.45 – 15.15 Evening program “Translational research: When do public science “Types of Higher Education Institutions, Fields of 17.45 – 18.45 Guided tour through projects result in real world impact” Knowledge and Innovative Start-ups – An Empirical Kassel’s New Gallery Markus Perkmann, Imperial College London (GB) Investigation” Michael Fritsch, University of Jena (DE) 19.00 – open end Dinner at Humboldt 1A Discussant: Mirko Titze, IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research (DE) Discussant: N.N
“Performance differences between academic spin- “On the governance en success of joint PhD offs and non-academic start-ups: A comparative projects between university and industry: evidence analysis using a non-parametric matching from survey and bibliometric data” approach” Koen Frenken, Utrecht University (NL) Uwe Cantner, University of Jena (DE) Discussant: N.N. Discussant: Christian Schneijderberg, INCHER-Kassel (DE)
Session 2 11.15 – 12.45 Session 4 15.45 – 17.15 “Patterns and Determinants of Inventor Mobility – “The dependence of firm growth on nearby Evidence from the Employment Biographies of university education and research” Inventors in Germany” Thomas Brenner, University of Marburg (DE) Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Discussant: N.N. Competition / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE) Discussant: Robert Gold, Kiel Institute for the World Economy “The local war for talent – recruitment of university (DE) graduates from a regional perspective”
Nicolas Winterhager, University of Kassel (DE) “Flying the nest: Home department characteristics and researcher mobility” Discussant: Jutta Günther, IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research (DE) Cornelia Lawson, The University of Nottingham / University of Torino (GB / IT) Discussant: Ulrike Schwabe, University of Kassel (DE)
Preliminary Program
Friday, March 7, 2014
Session 5 8.30 – 10.00 Session 6 10.20 – 12.45 Session 7 13.45 – 15.15 “Mobility of German university graduates: Is “Antecedents of Academic Entrepreneurship in the "Who I am and How I Contract: The Effect of (regional) beauty in the eye of the beholder?” Life Sciences” Contractors' Roles and Responsibilities on the Matthias Geissler, University of Kassel (DE) Carolin Häussler, University of Passau (DE) Evolution of Contract Structure in University-Industry Research Agreements." Discussant: N.N. Discussant: Sandra Ohly, University of Kassel (DE) Janet Bercovitz, University of Illinois (USA)
“The migration of university graduates – a “Returns to Academic Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Discussant: Georg Licht, ZEW Centre for European Economic and Sweden - Similarities and Differences” Research (DE) comparative analysis of capital and peripheral regions” Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris (FR) “Does University Licensing Facilitate or Restrict the Ina Drejer, Jacob Rubæk Holm and Kristian Nielsen, Aalborg Discussant: Dirk Fornahl, University of Bremen (DE) Flow of Knowledge and Research Inputs Among University (DK) Scientists?” Discussant: Choni Floether, INCHER-Kassel (DE) “My precious! The location and diffusion of Arvids Ziedonis, Stanford University (USA) scientific research: evidence from the Synchrotron Discussant: Guido Buenstorf, University of Kassel (DE) Diamond Light Source”
Christian Helmers, Santa Clara University (USA) Session 8 15.30 – 17.00 Discussant: Martin Binder, University of Kassel (DE) “The early careers of self-employed students” Sjerdjan Koster, University of Groningen (NL)
Discussant: Edith Braun, DZHW/INCHER-Kassel (DE)
“The geographical mobility of recently graduated
medical doctors”
Ina Drejer, Jacob Rubaek Holm and Karin Dam Petersen, Aalborg University (DK)
Discussant: Tim Plasa, INCHER-Kassel (DE)
17.00 – 17.15 Concluding remarks